Its still a bit early to tell, I don't know anyone here that is shivering in their boots over it, few raised eyebrows yes, but according to the Chinese they only have peaceful harmonious intentions cough cough, just like the invasion of Tibet I suppose. We don't worry as our PM owns a Chinese gold mine in China (or Tibet) and has sold the Chinese lots of leases in this country, including all the ports for starters... Peaceful harmonious intent i suppose includes the deliberate stated aim set out in China's Constitution the expresses an intention to stick it up capitalism. That they have given legs to by giving away all manner of goods for nothing. No charge what so ever, other than shipping, agent commissions and other delivery charges, next to nothing for manufacturing the goods in state owned factories, very very close to nothing. They have flooded the world with goods charging nothing other than shipping, agent commissions and other delivery charges so nothing much to tax either... You guys are in big trouble whether you perceive that i dunno, but Russia, China, South Africa, other African nations as well as many Muslim nations including Iran, probably Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh (which currently appears to be in some sought of transition) as well as a few South American countries. Also I perceive an unwillingness to allow America to create another European theater for the war. I think you will be trading Peso sooner than later actually
Look at how things appear to you. They appear as real, as existing from their own side. The most important point is to then think that this is a hallucination, a projection. A camera records various activities, such as fighting, and if you have power and a projector you can then project the film onto a screen. But what you see there on the screen is not real. You might see thousands of people fighting on a TV screen but there’s nobody really there on the screen. What appears is not real; it’s not true. Exactly like a camera recording images on a film, ignorance leaves imprints on our mental continuum and we then project true existence onto the things we experience.
Muslim Indonesia for many years been teaching in their schools northern Australia is part of Indonesia. Concern was heightened after George Bush's outrageous foray into the middle east and in response muslim teachers told Muslims to go forth and multiply in christian lands and actually China also threatened John Howard unless he listened up, they would swamp Australia with Chinese refuges at that time. Many people seem to have forgotten unarmed invaders likened to a trojan horse deliberately traveled to our nations as a weapon of war. Besides that idiots like Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbul been pissing in the pockets of Indonesia and China and have done nothing meaningful to defend Australia against Chinese one belt road that saw China supply Indonesia with "2250 short sea ships" each capable of transporting Chinese developed Pakistani tank building on grand scale. Or best as i can tell Rudd, Abbott and Turnbul haven't carefully considered defence relationships forged by China, including with Indonesia that is within rowboat distant of Australia's northern boarders, na they been funding Indonesian defence force procurement's. America in its quest to start a WW3, so they can again dominate international trade promotes Russia as a baddy and Australia as a goodie (High Ho Silver) and so Russia has supplied Indonesia with its latest Flanker 35 fighter bomber. We have a front line combat fighting force of around 25,000 troops that can pull a trigger, Indonesia has 500,000 people armed (army and police) and within there are around 400,000 + mohammad's on sight..within... with lots of clown converting to get into muslim velvet-gloves
Doomsday has just been put off for a little because today an airline employee stool an empty plane from Seattle's airport. Saving the world a lot of bother two F-15s Scrambled to intercept the stolen Q400 Airliner, and probably successfully intercepted the aircraft south of Seattle and or it may have crashed rather than been shot down. The 29-year-old airline mechanic stole the Horizon Air Q400 from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. It was then videoed doing loops in an area near America’s largest nuclear submarine base, America’s largest aircraft carrier berths and America’s largest Boeing logistics facility and Donald Duck didn’t even bother to tweeter sanctions on its pilot, they didn’t bother shooting the plane down…seems quite remarkable… Witnesses reported seeing the plane being chased by military aircraft before it crashed near Ketron Island. There were no passengers aboard. The two military F-15s had pursued the plane but were not involved in the crash, KIRO7 a news station in Seattle reported. Really remarkable and so doomsday for all the good people living near Puget Sound has been put of and are no doubt engrossed in the explanations that are bound to follow, including no doubt Donald Ducks
Japan recently launched a new class of destroyer with top-of-the line US missile-defence technology, and despite Japan’s mostly defensive posture, China portrayed the ship as a dangerous menace.
A Closer Look at the ASEAN-China Single Draft South China Sea Code of Conduct
What is China's Belt and Road Initiative? The project is often described as a 21st century silk road, made up of a “belt” of overland corridors and a maritime “road” of shipping lanes.
China is one of a handful of states engaged in a race to deploy a hypersonic strike platform capable of evading modern missile defense systems.
A video of Sky Star-2's testing, conducted Friday by the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics in China's northwest, has emerged online, with the hypersonic vehicle said to have successfully separated from its launch vehicle and engaged in high-altitude maneuvering during its ten minute flight.
For example, consider manufacturing. Nothing is more suggestive of the industrial way of life than highly capitalized, giant, centralized factories equipped with heavy machines and attended by blue-collar workforces, churning out mass-produced products on assembly lines. But what if millions of people could manufacture batches or even single manufactured items in their own homes or businesses, cheaper, quicker, and with the same quality control as the most advanced state-of the-art factories on earth?
Three of the four largest companies in the world today are oil companies—Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, and BP. Underneath these giant energy companies are some five hundred global companies representing every sector and industry—with a combined revenue of $22.5 trillion, which is the equivalent of one-third of the world’s $62 trillion GDP—that are inseparably connected to and dependent on fossil fuels for their very survival.
The emerging Third Industrial Revolution, by contrast, is organized around distributed renewable energies that are found everywhere and are, for the most part, free—sun, wind, hydro, geothermal heat, biomass, and ocean waves and tides. These dispersed energies will be collected at millions of local sites and then bundled and shared with others over a continental green electricity internet to achieve optimum energy levels and maintain a high-performing, sustainable economy. The distributed nature of renewable energies necessitates collaborative rather than hierarchical command and control mechanisms.
This new lateral energy regime establishes the organizational model for the countless economic activities that multiply from it. A more distributed and collaborative industrial revolution, in turn, invariably leads to a more distributed sharing of the wealth generated.
Yes has been long time, how has life been treating you? I hope its been mostly good.
Still photographing birds, sharing them and views same as before (same subject matters), very little changed. I was flown out of the mountains in a pressurized aircraft (aorta aneurysm) end Feb 2016, survived that...emmm antibiotic's stuffed digestion so been some changes in that department, including I have learnt to bake gluten, yeast free bread. All good, am about to head off into the red center for a month or so (40 days and 50 nights), might again make it to Innamincka or like destination. Hope your having fun
China donates warships to Sri Lanka and Philippines in drive to expand regional influence
The gift of a frigate to Sri Lanka was announced last week by Senior Colonel Xu Jianwei, military attaché at the Chinese embassy in Colombo, while Philippine naval spokesman Commander Jonathan Zata confirmed the donation of four new patrol boats from Beijing on Sunday.
The People’s Liberation Army will also provide “various training” to the Sri Lankan military and build an auditorium complex at the Sri Lanka Military Academy, Xu told an event last Monday, the Colombo Gazette reported.
On Sunday Zata said China would also give the Philippines 200 rocket propelled grenade launchers and ammunition, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported.
Chinese Navy warship heading to Darwin to join Australian and US forces in war games
Twenty-seven nations have accepted invitations to join or observe the KAKADU exercises including Cambodia, Indonesia and The United Arab Emirates, but the United Kingdom has declined to take part.
Conversation between Australian Prime Minister and President of china by law had to have been recorded, abbot couldn't phone ping without that occurring so yes transcript hidden away... Often wonder how the oil rig worker who lost his job because of abbot's lies is getting on
Well theyliealot all the time, still blaming Putin for MH17 instead of the West Ukraine government, sickening to listen to them knowingly misleading the victims family members to, belittling them actually, all the while covering Chinese interests with MH370, its disgusting. Supporting the white helmets, Al Quaida the terrorist seen slapping babies and pouring water over them while claiming gas attacks, extracted by Israel...sickening. He publicly announced that his libel party supports another world war, he also refuses to correctly proportion blame for the Korean war and some how misses that Indonesia is far better armed than the land of Oz a really serious threat with Saudi Arabia spending 56 billion further religious indoctrination in Indonesia. Will need to watch and see what follows in Pakistan now to i think. Troubling times mate
Russia and China Rapidly Building Gold Reserves In Yet Another Attack on the Dollar
“China and Russia have been aggressively accumulating their official gold reserves over the last 10 to 15 years.” When that process started, the two countries originally held a total of less than 400 tons of gold. “But now,” he went on, “both these nations hold a combined 3670 tons of gold." Other reports suggest the actual total acquired totals may be even higher, but this is still a major shift in ownership of the precious metal.
With the gold accumulations by Russia and China considered in the mix, it may be only a short time before global traders wake up to see the gold-backed petro-yuan a reality, and the U.S. dollar kicked under in a far more dramatic drop than many might ever have expected.
European countries are already shifting some of their foreign currency reserves away from the dollar and into yuan.
Philip Klinkmüller, a financial partner with German based Hopf-Klinkmüller Capital Management has stated there is a visible trend in China and Russia to buy more bullion to end their dependency on the US dollar, and has suggested that over the next two decades global financial markets will see a significant devaluation of the US Dollar.
According to the World Gold Council, China and Russia are ranked sixth and seventh on the list of country with the largest gold reserves, with 1,843 tons and 1,655 tons respectively. First is the US with 8,134 tons, followed by Germany (3,380 tons) and the IMF (2,814 tons).
Buying quietly, China raises gold reserves to 1,054 tonnes
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Zuckerberg loses $22.5b in a snap as Facebook plunges
His fortune tumbled by $US16.8 billion ($22.5 billion) in late trading on Wednesday, US time, as shares of the social media giant slid 20 per cent at 5.37pm in New York on disappointing results. If that holds through Thursday's close, he will slide to sixth place from third on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It would also wipe his $US13.7 billion of gains for the year, leaving him with just less than $US70 billion.
Century's longest total lunar eclipse will be in totality from 1 am to 2:43 am on July 28. The moon will appear deep red in colour, also called the blood moon.
The Xenamnoy dam in Attapeu province, 550 kilometres south of the capital Vientiane, was reportedly built to hold 1 billion tons of water, and is 1.6 kilometres wide.
A volunteer emergency organisation, Vientiane Rescue, said the dam wall broke last night after heavy monsoonal rains.
Reports on one media site said millions of tons of water had inundated surrounding land, washing away villages and homes.
Laos dam collapse HORROR: Hundreds missing as 5 BILLION litres of water destroy villages A DAM collapse in Laos has left hundreds missing and many feared dead as the equivalent of two million Olympic swimming pools flooded an area.
The concerns of the green groups over the environemental impact of the projects were hardened into a full-on international dispute in 2012 when neighbouring Cambodia and Vietnam lodged fierce objections to the building of the Xayaburi dam which they said would severely impact fish stocks.
But Laos went ahead with the $100m dam - built by a Thai company with Thai money with almost all of the electricity pre-sold to Thailand.
It is due to send the majority of electricity, 90 percent, to Thailand, and the rest would be offered to Laos.
The collapse at the hydroelectric dam in Attapeu province late on Monday sent flash floods through six villages, Lao News Agency said.
Hydroelectric ambitions in Laos
The government in Laos has launched an ambitious dam-building scheme to become the "battery of Asia" Laos sits on the Mekong River and its tributaries - a perfect location for hydro power The country has 39 hydroelectric power plants, and 53 more are being planned or built By 2020, Laos also plans to build 54 more electricity transmission lines and 16 substations Laos already exports two thirds of its hydropower, with electricity making up roughly 30 percent of all Laotian exports
The Australian navy has been invited to accompany the pride of Britain’s fleet, the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, when it comes to the Pacific - a joint show of strength that will be interpreted as a reply to growing Chinese influence and activity in the region.
It has emerged that the UK plans to sail HMS Queen Elizabeth to the Pacific in 2021 amid concerns regarding freedom of navigation in the region.
HMS Queen Elizabeth will sail to the Pacific on her maiden deployment in 2021 according to an ambassador.
The U.K. navy has invited the Australian navy to participate in joint military exercises in the Pacific, which may include a "freedom of navigation" exercise in the South China Sea, reported the Sydney Morning Herald.
The U.K. navy's tour of the Pacific will include the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest warship ever built by the U.K.
Williamson did not say whether the HMS Queen Elizabeth would conduct a pass through the South China Sea, but former U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that is was on the agenda.
Julie Bishop enters US diplomatic talks amid Iran tensions
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have opened the Australia-US Ministerial meetings in California amid a diplomatic storm between the US and Iran.
Syria condemns Israeli evacuation of White Helmets rescue workers as 'criminal operation'
The Syrian government has accused the White Helmets, also known as Syria Civil Defence, of being a Western-sponsored terrorist organisation.
President Bashar al-Assad has called the White Helmets part of Al Qaeda in Syria.
The White Helmets was established as a rescue service in rebel-held areas of the country, where its volunteers have often worked to save people trapped under the rubble of government bombardment.
Israel-Russia talks break down on position of Iranian troops
Later on Monday, Israel rebuffed a new Russian offer to keep Iranian forces in Syria away from the Golan Heights ceasefire line, an Israeli official said, complicating Moscow's bid to stabilise the country as the civil war there wanes.
The latest disagreement arose in a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a senior Russian delegation dispatched to Jerusalem as Syrian government forces routed rebels near the Golan.
I just spent more than an hour listening to the boys explaining what they saw and thought. I TV live press conference, with whole team passing microphone around. Whole spoke, all looked comfortable...relaxed and smiled and laughed.. So thought to mention in this thread so you can keep an eye out on your TV
You prove this crap first: "Russian toxic chemicals were used to try and kill two former Russians in Salisbury, the result being that two further people had contact with the toxic container, one died, the other is still recovering."!
your talking crap, May and Boris were lying their teeth out, and probably still are
trying to find happiness outside of self I'm not comfortable with anyone proposing making ill considered karma's in my space, and anyway, I'm getting far to old and silly to handle constant dishonesty. I don't agree the notion a household has a female a head, equality or not a notion men submit to the will of a women (female rebirth) isn't an option to my mind
Observing ones own feelings / mind took a bit of effort...
If you watch what people advertising are doing e.g. repetition buy buy buy, then eventually quite few people certainly will purchase their product.
During the 1990's sitting about in Hervey Bay Queensland I went through a legal exchange with NZ government pertaining to issues that arose from my Vietnam service. I can honestly say to you, after a while I was able to sit quietly in Australia after having posted by snail mail a response back to NZ and pick up on the reply they were posting back to me in Australia, and before their corresponds had left NZ sit about writing my response to the reply they were sending, I'd post my reply and therefore saved many months, perhaps years of time addressing issues. Eventually 200i I was invited to go to NZ to address my concerns in court of law, Privacy Commissioners Court.
The point i am attempting to make in relation to energy we maintain interest in, make karma's in, our feelings are alerting us, we just need to be watching (observing our mind). While babbling or listening to she-loves-me-yeah-yeah, or any other music, just like while talking lost listen arises
Ahead of the risky mission the doctors were reportedly given diplomatic immunity — a form of legal protection from prosecution under the host country’s laws.
Various other extraction methods were proposed, including drilling or placing the boys in nylon pods with air tanks, but the dive method was ultimately decided as the best option.
‘THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON’
In an earlier interview, Dr Challen revealed that the boys were medicated to the extent that “they didn’t know what was going on”.
“Who would chloroform them? If they’re chloroformed, how could they come out? It’s called anxiolytic, something to make them not excited, not stressed,” he said at a press conference in Bangkok.
But a British diver said: “I was told the boys were given a dose of ketamine”, referring to the horse tranquilliser often used as a recreational drug.
An American diver involved in the rescue said that the “kids were proper knocked out”.
Spanish diver Fernando Raigal told the Daily Mail: “The boys were sedated — they were unconscious.”
After you have uploaded copy the Hotlinks for Forum codes and post into a forum that allows pictures...
Buddhist guard mind, block negative clap-trap
I take advice from skilled, highly qualified teachers like Dalai Lama and certainly not from christians like i used to. Because unfortunately once upon a time when i trusted everyone as i didn't know better, I woke up in a place called Vietnam, now i guard mind all the time.
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RE: State within a state in Australia
Its still a bit early to tell, I don't know anyone here that is shivering in their boots over it, few raised eyebrows yes, but according to the Chinese they only have peaceful harmonious intentions cough cough,We don't worry as our PM owns a Chinese gold mine in China (or Tibet) and has sold the Chinese lots of leases in this country, including all the ports for starters...
Peaceful harmonious intent i suppose includes the deliberate stated aim set out in China's Constitution the expresses an intention to stick it up capitalism. That they have given legs to by giving away all manner of goods for nothing. No charge what so ever, other than shipping, agent commissions and other delivery charges, next to nothing for manufacturing the goods in state owned factories, very very close to nothing.
They have flooded the world with goods charging nothing other than shipping, agent commissions and other delivery charges so nothing much to tax either...
You guys are in big trouble whether you perceive that i dunno, but Russia, China, South Africa, other African nations as well as many Muslim nations including Iran, probably Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh (which currently appears to be in some sought of transition) as well as a few South American countries.
Also I perceive an unwillingness to allow America to create another European theater for the war.
I think you will be trading Peso sooner than later actually